Melissa Graham
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3799159 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Melissa Graham |
| PRENOMES | Melissa |
| SOBRENOME | Graham |
| ASSINATURA | GRAHAM M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0927-0002 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 103 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Australian women’s lived experiences of unrealistic motherhood and mothering expectations
This article explores how hegemonic gender shapes the expectations on women to become mothers and adopt intensive motherhood practices. Implementing a qualitative phenomenological approach, interviews were conducted with twenty-four Australian women. The findings revealed three central themes. Firstly, hegemonic gender reinforces, normalizes and maintains motherhood as the central component of adult femininity. Secondly, expectations of ‘good’ mo…
Information Needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Women with Endometriosis in Australia
Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women make up an important population of women with endometriosis in Australia. However, their experiences with the condition, particularly regarding their experiences with information on endometriosis, have not yet been studied. This qualitative descriptive study aimed to explore the information needs and preferences of CALD women living with endometriosis. A qualitative descriptive study, using semi-…
Information-Seeking Behaviours of Cald Women with Endometriosis in Australia
Endometriosis affects one in seven women in Australia and is a significant public health concern. Access to appropriate health information is essential for informed decision-making and quality of life, especially for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women who may face additional communication and health literacy barriers. This study explored the information-seeking behaviours and experiences of CALD women living with endometriosis usi…
Gendered, Classed and Aged Qualitative Job Demands, Resources and Rewards Among Mothers, Fathers and Childless Women and Men in an Australian Organisation
Poor quality jobs can impact employees’ health and wellbeing. However, jobs’ changing natures and employees’ increasing diversity mean extant job quality models may inadequately explain employees’ experiences. This qualitative case-study of an Australian organisation aimed to understand mothers’, fathers’ and childless women’s and men’s experiences of qualitative job demands, resources and rewards in the context of multilevel power relations. We …
Becoming a mother has probably been the most accidentally political thing i have ever done’. How Australian Women Challenge Hegemonic Gender
Structures of hegemonic gender within society expect women to become mothers and adhere to intensive mothering practices. However, limited research explores how women are constrained by and challenge hegemonic gender through the institution of motherhood. Aiming to address this research gap, a descriptive phenomenological approach, drawing on in-depth interviews with 24 Australian women was implemented. Thematic analysis revealed three interrelat…
Reproductive Decision‐Making
These findings are important to inform and advocate for future public health and social policy to support women's decision-making and overall health and wellbeing related to their reproductive autonomy
A Review of the Policy Context for Reproductive Decision‐Making Among Elite Female Athletes in Team Sports in Australia
Women's reproductive decision‐making (RDM) is impacted by the broader policy environment, including macro (social) and meso (organisational) policy. For elite female athletes, their reproductive years often coincide with their window of peak performance. Currently, little is known about elite female athletes and meso level policies which may influence RDM for those engaged in team sports. This study explored the policy context among peak Australi…
Stockpiling moral panics
People often respond to existential threats by stocking up on items they deem essential for survival. At the onset of COVID-19, Australians were among the fastest and most ardent to bulk buy supplies – especially toilet paper – leading to widespread shortages and tense scenes in supermarkets nationwide. In this article, we examine online and print news media representations of bulk buying behaviours at this time. Results highlight that the media …
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children
Women should just be women”
Discourses of womanhood are often associated with marriage and children, an identity that has been influenced by idealized discourses of femininity, and gender stereotypes for decades. What has been less considered are alternative definitions of womanhood drawing on discourses and practices of personal freedom and self-identity. This article draws on in-depth interviews with eight Australian women without children aged between 45 and 64 years to …
Australian women's motherhood aspirations
To better understand the discrepancy between women's motherhood aspirations and outcomes, this study explored the impact of socio‐cultural structures of gender. Taking a qualitative phenomenological approach, interviews were conducted with 24 Victorian women aged between 25 and 45 years. Three themes resulted from data analysis, reflecting the meaning women gave to their lived experiences: Motherhood is central to womanhood; motherhood ambivalenc…
Women's support-seeking for reproductive decision-making in Australia
While a positive relationship between social support and women’s reproductive decision-making outcomes exists, little is known about the reasons why women engage supporters to assist them when making reproductive decisions. This study explores Australian women’s reasons for engaging supporters for reproductive decision-making and whether women’s socio-demographic characteristics are suggestive of any such reasons. A modified content analysis appr…
"Do you have kids? Do you have kids? How many kids do you have?" the enforcement of hegemonic gender in Australian society
This research explored women's lived experiences of societal enforcement of motherhood through mechanisms of surveillance and judgement.Using a descriptive qualitative phenomenological design, 24 Australian women were interviewed about their lived experiences as women within society.Thematic analysis revealed five themes: women's enforcement of hegemonic gender; the enforcement of motherhood in public and private spaces; labelling to control wome…
Employees Working from Home
Leaders will need to take a broad view of job design, taking into account physical and psychosocial aspects of work, to effectively support employees WFH and manage stress and MSP
Working from home during the Covid 19 pandemic
Background The COVID 19 pandemic resulted in the introduction of public health measures including mandated and recommended work from home orders to reduce transmission. This provided a unique opportunity to examine sense of community and social support within the workplace and self-rated general health. This paper examines employees’ workplace sense of community and social support across one year of the COVID 19 pandemic and associated self-rated…
Inclusive Policy? An Intersectional Analysis of Policy Influencing Women’s Reproductive Decision‐Making
Policy can be used and experienced as a tool for social inclusion or exclusion; it can empower or disenfranchise. Women’s reproductive decision‐making and health is impacted by policy, and women’s experiences of diverse and intersecting marginalised social locations can influence their experiences of policy. This research aimed to explore how intersectionality is considered within Victorian state government policies that influence and impact wome…
Multilevel Continua of Mothers, Fathers and Childless Women and Men's Work-Life "Choices" and Their Constraints, Enablers and Consequences
Gendered and classed working, parenting and other life contexts create multifaceted interactions between quantitative (including time and effort-intensive) and qualitative (including needs, interests, aspirations and identities) work and life contexts. This research aimed to understand mothers, fathers and childless women and men's gendered and classed strategies for managing multifaceted work and life interactions in their multilevel contexts. T…
The victims, villains and heroes of 'panic buying
Societies often respond to a crisis by attributing blame to some groups while constructing others as victims and heroes. While it has received scant sociological attention, 'panic buying' is a critical indicator of such public sentiment at the onset of a crisis, and thus a crucial site for analysis. This article traces dynamics of blame in news media representations of an extreme period of panic buying during COVID-19 in Australia. Analysis revea…
A Multilevel Grounded Theory of Quantitative Job Quality Among Mothers, Fathers and Childless Women and Men in a Gendered, Classed and Aged “Growth-Driven” Organisation
Who do Australian women seek social support from during the reproductive decision‐making process
Limited evidence exists about women's experiences of social support for reproductive decision-making, particularly who women seek social support from during decision-making. Using a concurrent mixed methods approach, this research explored who women aged 25-35 years living in Victoria, Australia, seek social support from during reproductive decision-making. Women seek social support for reproductive decision-making from multiple sources. However,…
That's a woman's body, that's a woman's choice”
Diversified Organizational Inequality Regimes and Ideal Workers in a "Growth-Driven," "Diverse," "Flexible" Australian Company
Interacting global, societal and organizational contexts produce unique organizational inequality regimes. This paper aims to understand multilevel processes influencing gendered, classed, raced and aged inequality regimes and worker hierarchies within "ComCo", an Australian subsidiary of a multinational company. Our qualitative critical feminist-grounded theory approach triangulated organizational documentation, employee interviews and open-ende…
Hegemonic gender and Australian Women's mothering aspirations
A rapid review of mental and physical health effects of working at home
Optimising Social Support for the Preservation of Self
Unnatural’, ‘Unwomanly’, ‘Uncreditable’ and ‘Undervalued’
Navigating the Terrain of Lived Experience
In qualitative research we are often presented with a tension between having open and fluid interviews to support staying true to the lived experiences of participants and achieving a level of abstraction from the data in order to uncover the essential structures and meanings of that particular lived experience. A way of resolving this tension is through the application of theoretical frameworks. Van Manen's four lifeworld existentials offer a le…
Political Public Relations and the Promotion of Participatory, Transparent Government Through Social Media
Using data collected from more than 450 local government officials from municipalities across the United States, this study examines the impact that various community features have on local governments' social media use. It specifically addresses how staff and time resources, privacy concerns, citizen expectations, social media effectiveness, staff size, and public records requirements affect extent of use of social media for networking, research…
Social Exclusion of Australian Childless Women in Their Reproductive Years
Research suggests Australian childless women are at risk of pronatalism-driven social exclusion. This exploratory, mixed methods, cross-sectional study described and explored the social exclusion of Australian childless women aged 25 to 44 years, and asked: what are the nature and extent of social exclusion of childless women; and do the nature and extent of exclusion vary for different types of childless women? A total of 776 childless female Au…
Representations of Childless Women in the Australian Print Media
There is an array of socially constructed life scripts which feature the motherhood role as a pinnacle for women; however, increasing numbers of women are remaining childless, violating these very basic informal morals of our society. In Australia, the political and social climate is predominantly pronatalist. Powerful discourses, produced through social, political, medical, and religious institutions, provide commentary on cultural discourses su…
Women’s Reproductive Choices in Australia
Hegemonic gender and Australian Women's mothering aspirations
Discursive Representations of Social Support for Reproductive Decision-Making Among Victorian Women
Pronatalism and Social Exclusion in Australian Society
That's a woman's body, that's a woman's choice”
Who do Australian women seek social support from during the reproductive decision‐making process
Limited evidence exists about women's experiences of social support for reproductive decision-making, particularly who women seek social support from during decision-making. Using a concurrent mixed methods approach, this research explored who women aged 25-35 years living in Victoria, Australia, seek social support from during reproductive decision-making. Women seek social support for reproductive decision-making from multiple sources. However,…
Exploring the Australian policy context relating to women’s reproductive choices
This study explored Australian federal level policy instruments which influence and impact on women’s reproductive choices and the consequences of those choices. A systematic policy search and mapping exercise was undertaken. Eighteen policy instruments were identified at the Federal level and were explored through a policy framework and thematic analysis. Findings indicate there are multiple layers of influence on women’s reproductive choices an…
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children
The victims, villains and heroes of 'panic buying
Societies often respond to a crisis by attributing blame to some groups while constructing others as victims and heroes. While it has received scant sociological attention, 'panic buying' is a critical indicator of such public sentiment at the onset of a crisis, and thus a crucial site for analysis. This article traces dynamics of blame in news media representations of an extreme period of panic buying during COVID-19 in Australia. Analysis revea…
Diversified Organizational Inequality Regimes and Ideal Workers in a "Growth-Driven," "Diverse," "Flexible" Australian Company
Interacting global, societal and organizational contexts produce unique organizational inequality regimes. This paper aims to understand multilevel processes influencing gendered, classed, raced and aged inequality regimes and worker hierarchies within "ComCo", an Australian subsidiary of a multinational company. Our qualitative critical feminist-grounded theory approach triangulated organizational documentation, employee interviews and open-ende…
Optimising Social Support for the Preservation of Self
Social Support and Women's Reproductive Decision Making
Despite the strong association between social support and positive health outcomes, little is understood about its role in women's reproductive decision making. Developing insight into how women perceive, mobilize, and experience social support is critical to understanding their lived experiences of reproductive decision making and to implementing appropriate supporting structures to help women realize their reproductive choices. In this study, e…
"Do you have kids? Do you have kids? How many kids do you have?" the enforcement of hegemonic gender in Australian society
This research explored women's lived experiences of societal enforcement of motherhood through mechanisms of surveillance and judgement.Using a descriptive qualitative phenomenological design, 24 Australian women were interviewed about their lived experiences as women within society.Thematic analysis revealed five themes: women's enforcement of hegemonic gender; the enforcement of motherhood in public and private spaces; labelling to control wome…
Inclusive Policy? An Intersectional Analysis of Policy Influencing Women’s Reproductive Decision‐Making
Policy can be used and experienced as a tool for social inclusion or exclusion; it can empower or disenfranchise. Women’s reproductive decision‐making and health is impacted by policy, and women’s experiences of diverse and intersecting marginalised social locations can influence their experiences of policy. This research aimed to explore how intersectionality is considered within Victorian state government policies that influence and impact wome…
Predictors of Hysterectomy as a Treatment for Menstrual Symptoms
Unnatural’, ‘Unwomanly’, ‘Uncreditable’ and ‘Undervalued’
Representations of Childless Women in the Australian Print Media
There is an array of socially constructed life scripts which feature the motherhood role as a pinnacle for women; however, increasing numbers of women are remaining childless, violating these very basic informal morals of our society. In Australia, the political and social climate is predominantly pronatalist. Powerful discourses, produced through social, political, medical, and religious institutions, provide commentary on cultural discourses su…
Political Public Relations and the Promotion of Participatory, Transparent Government Through Social Media
Using data collected from more than 450 local government officials from municipalities across the United States, this study examines the impact that various community features have on local governments' social media use. It specifically addresses how staff and time resources, privacy concerns, citizen expectations, social media effectiveness, staff size, and public records requirements affect extent of use of social media for networking, research…
Navigating the Terrain of Lived Experience
In qualitative research we are often presented with a tension between having open and fluid interviews to support staying true to the lived experiences of participants and achieving a level of abstraction from the data in order to uncover the essential structures and meanings of that particular lived experience. A way of resolving this tension is through the application of theoretical frameworks. Van Manen's four lifeworld existentials offer a le…
The role of social media in local government crisis communications
Is Being Childless Detrimental to a Woman's Health and Well-Being Across Her Life Course
Social Exclusion of Australian Childless Women in Their Reproductive Years
Research suggests Australian childless women are at risk of pronatalism-driven social exclusion. This exploratory, mixed methods, cross-sectional study described and explored the social exclusion of Australian childless women aged 25 to 44 years, and asked: what are the nature and extent of social exclusion of childless women; and do the nature and extent of exclusion vary for different types of childless women? A total of 776 childless female Au…
Pronatalism and Social Exclusion in Australian Society
Women’s Reproductive Choices in Australia
Exploring the Australian policy context relating to women’s reproductive choices
This study explored Australian federal level policy instruments which influence and impact on women’s reproductive choices and the consequences of those choices. A systematic policy search and mapping exercise was undertaken. Eighteen policy instruments were identified at the Federal level and were explored through a policy framework and thematic analysis. Findings indicate there are multiple layers of influence on women’s reproductive choices an…
Discursive Representations of Social Support for Reproductive Decision-Making Among Victorian Women
A rapid review of mental and physical health effects of working at home
Optimising Social Support for the Preservation of Self
Social Support and Women's Reproductive Decision Making
Despite the strong association between social support and positive health outcomes, little is understood about its role in women's reproductive decision making. Developing insight into how women perceive, mobilize, and experience social support is critical to understanding their lived experiences of reproductive decision making and to implementing appropriate supporting structures to help women realize their reproductive choices. In this study, e…
Hegemonic gender and Australian Women's mothering aspirations
A Multilevel Grounded Theory of Quantitative Job Quality Among Mothers, Fathers and Childless Women and Men in a Gendered, Classed and Aged “Growth-Driven” Organisation
Who do Australian women seek social support from during the reproductive decision‐making process
Limited evidence exists about women's experiences of social support for reproductive decision-making, particularly who women seek social support from during decision-making. Using a concurrent mixed methods approach, this research explored who women aged 25-35 years living in Victoria, Australia, seek social support from during reproductive decision-making. Women seek social support for reproductive decision-making from multiple sources. However,…
That's a woman's body, that's a woman's choice”
Diversified Organizational Inequality Regimes and Ideal Workers in a "Growth-Driven," "Diverse," "Flexible" Australian Company
Interacting global, societal and organizational contexts produce unique organizational inequality regimes. This paper aims to understand multilevel processes influencing gendered, classed, raced and aged inequality regimes and worker hierarchies within "ComCo", an Australian subsidiary of a multinational company. Our qualitative critical feminist-grounded theory approach triangulated organizational documentation, employee interviews and open-ende…
Employees Working from Home
Leaders will need to take a broad view of job design, taking into account physical and psychosocial aspects of work, to effectively support employees WFH and manage stress and MSP
Working from home during the Covid 19 pandemic
Background The COVID 19 pandemic resulted in the introduction of public health measures including mandated and recommended work from home orders to reduce transmission. This provided a unique opportunity to examine sense of community and social support within the workplace and self-rated general health. This paper examines employees’ workplace sense of community and social support across one year of the COVID 19 pandemic and associated self-rated…
Inclusive Policy? An Intersectional Analysis of Policy Influencing Women’s Reproductive Decision‐Making
Policy can be used and experienced as a tool for social inclusion or exclusion; it can empower or disenfranchise. Women’s reproductive decision‐making and health is impacted by policy, and women’s experiences of diverse and intersecting marginalised social locations can influence their experiences of policy. This research aimed to explore how intersectionality is considered within Victorian state government policies that influence and impact wome…
Multilevel Continua of Mothers, Fathers and Childless Women and Men's Work-Life "Choices" and Their Constraints, Enablers and Consequences
Gendered and classed working, parenting and other life contexts create multifaceted interactions between quantitative (including time and effort-intensive) and qualitative (including needs, interests, aspirations and identities) work and life contexts. This research aimed to understand mothers, fathers and childless women and men's gendered and classed strategies for managing multifaceted work and life interactions in their multilevel contexts. T…
The victims, villains and heroes of 'panic buying
Societies often respond to a crisis by attributing blame to some groups while constructing others as victims and heroes. While it has received scant sociological attention, 'panic buying' is a critical indicator of such public sentiment at the onset of a crisis, and thus a crucial site for analysis. This article traces dynamics of blame in news media representations of an extreme period of panic buying during COVID-19 in Australia. Analysis revea…
Sociology (27 obras) · Psychology (21 obras) · Gender Studies (17 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Gender Studies (14 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Social science (13 obras) · Demography (12 obras) · Qualitative research (12 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras)